Poetry. Winner of the 2007 Gatewood Prize, Kathleen Rooney's ONEIROMANCE (AN EPITHALAMION) explores the absurdity and divinity of the marriage ceremony through a dizzying dream sequence with playful verse that skillfully blends call and response with Shakespearean odes, romance and cynicism, story-telling and wordplay. Patty Seyburn proclaims: "These poems contain deep doubt and true sentiment, providing that pleasure-giving union of provocation and renewal." Rooney is a founding editor of Rose Metal Press and the author of Reading with Oprah: The Book Club That Changed America (University of Arkansas, 2005).

Kathleen Rooney is an editor of Rose Metal Press and the author of the nonfiction books Reading with Oprah and Live Nude Girl. With Elisa Gabbert, she is the author of the collaborative poetry collection That Tiny Insane Voluptuousness. Her memoir in stories, For You, For You I Am Trilling These Songs is forthcoming from Counterpoint in 2010. She lives in Chicago and works in an office.

Reviews and Other Links
http://feministreview.blogspot.com/2009/01/oneiromance-epithalamion.html
http://kathleenrooney.com/